Less than 4 minutes of vigorous exercise a day could halve your dementia riskFri, 06 Nov 2026 16:00:00 +0000 Bursts of vigorous physical activity, such as carrying heavy shopping or rushing for the bus, seem to have a significant effect on our brain health and dementia risk | |
Parkinson’s may be driven by ‘vicious cycle’ that disrupts brain waste drainageFri, 06 Nov 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Parkinson's disease is linked to toxic protein clumps and disrupted brain waste removal, which may feed off each other, causing the condition to progress | |
Hubble Space Telescope is falling to Earth – should NASA save it?Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Hubble Space Telescope faces a fiery and fatal re-entry to Earth's atmosphere sometime around 2032, but NASA is asking the private sector for ideas to keep it working | |
A robot called GIMLI will explore a lunar cave for a future moon baseFri, 06 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The race to build a moon base is ramping up. Columnist Robin George Andrews explores how NASA is preparing by sending a cave-hunting robot ahead of humans | |
The economic benefits of the covid vaccines may be double what we thoughtThu, 05 Nov 2026 19:00:00 +0000 The global health and economic benefits of the covid-19 vaccines were thought to have reached up to $38 trillion in their first year, but a new analysis suggests $64.3 trillion is a more accurate figure | |
Tomb in Siberia reveals humans were using cannabis 2800 years agoThu, 05 Nov 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Psychoactive compounds have been found in a hair from a Scythian tomb in Siberia, providing the earliest direct evidence of cannabis being used as a drug | |
Google shouldn’t be pressuring schools to use its AIThu, 05 Nov 2026 16:46:46 +0000 Google has said schools can’t have access to its search engine without AI, even in schools where AI use is being banned. Columnist Jacob Aron says the tech giant shouldn’t be dictating education policy in this way | |
Evidence of active volcanoes on Mars may boost chances of finding lifeThu, 05 Nov 2026 16:42:06 +0000 Recent fractures on the surface of Mars and gases detected by an orbiter probe provide some of the strongest evidence yet that the planet is volcanically active | |
Microplastics may be changing the colour of the Pacific OceanThu, 05 Nov 2026 16:00:00 +0000 Satellites show that the ocean around a gyre of plastic detritus in the Pacific is brightening and changing colour, with the most likely explanation being microplastics suspended in the water column | |
Marginal oil and gas wells have outsized pollution impactThu, 05 Nov 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Low-producing oil and gas wells in the US account for 5 per cent of national oil and gas production but produce 40 per cent of the industry's methane emissions | |